ASUS Eee D200 - digital home center

January 12, 2009, 6:28 am

Family PC ASUS Eee PC is increasing with each passing day - the exhibition CES 2009 has already yielded a number of interesting releases Taiwanese companies:this is the first in the world netbuk-plane Eee PC T91 and PC Eee Top, and a personal computer Eee Keyboard, wrapped in the keyboard case. All of these devices in their own interest to a wide range of users, providing fans of high-tech gadgets convenient solution for mobile work with the Network, see the video, managing digital home multimedia devices. Now the family computer Eee PC has another model - Eee D200.Coming novelty, which will be officially presented as a finished commercial product only at the CeBIT, is a nettop, designed for use in the home as a media server. Meanwhile, the company showed a prototype of ASUS, but it is unlikely to be significantly different in appearance and performance of ready solutions, to evaluate the possibility of Eee D200 today.Let`s begin introducing the model with its performance. As the CPU in this case made by the most popular today, integrated circuits Intel Atom N270, which is the operating frequency of 1, 6 GHz and a maximum power consumption - 2, 5 Watt. The amount of memory standard DDR2-533 is 2 GB. The main feature of the system will be disk subsystem, which will include two hard disks, totaling 2 TB - more than enough to store a vast collection of films, music and photos. To increase the productivity of the hard drive, or improving the reliability of data storage hard drives can be combined in a RAID-arrays.is worth a few words to say about the possibilities of communication ASUS Eee D200:there are four USB ports 2. 0 for connecting peripherals (including the additional external drives), the number of Ethernet-network ports also is four, turning nettop in server perfectly suited for the home network with the possibility of sharing access to network printers, etc. The integrated router also supports and high-speed wireless network standard 802. 11n MIMO.Of the other interesting features of the device is worth noting the existence of an optical drive with a slot loading media and sensory 3, 5-inch LCD screen, which is managed by the most demanding roles of media servers. Unfortunately, there is no information on the cost of ASUS Eee D200, but some observers suggest that this figure does not exceed the mark of $ 600.